With just 2.5 million viewers during it’s third and final season on the CW Network, VERONICA MARS, a TV series about a young female sleuth and her detective father, was cancelled in 2007.

The audience might have been too small to justify the show’s renewal to Warner Brothers, the rights’ holder, but it’s  passion was anything but. More like a cult following, fans of the series soon began to clamor for VERONICA MARS, the movie.

The studio passed on the idea, but series creator, Rob Thomas, and star, Kristen Bell, with Warner Brother’s permission, decided to launch a VERONICA MARS Kickstarter campaign  to try to raise the necessary production funds themselves. And, the fans responded in spades.

INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it won the award for best editing in the World Documentary Competition.

It’s the story of four struggling independent game designers, Phil Fish, Edmund McMillen, Tommy Refenes, and Johnathan Blow, and the three games, Fez, Super Meat Boy, and Braid, they fought tooth and nail to create.

It’s also the story of two independent filmmakers from Winnipeg,

Lisanne Pajot and James Swirsky,

and how they’ve used the internet to bring their feature-length documentary to life in the digital age.

Jeff Koenig, founder of OMFGeek, has a plan.

In the past, he’s been behind the development of a number of web series.

Now he’s using the crowd funding site, Mobcaster, to raise funds for a pilot for an independent scifi/comedy series called Drifter.

What’s different this time?

First, there were crowd-funding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo designed to make the process of donating to creative projects more broadly and easily accessible.

Now, there’s SLATED …

A new online film investment marketplace designed to connect accredited investors with independent filmmakers who have high quality  films in need of financing.